The sociology of education : a systematic analysis
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The sociology of education : a systematic analysis
Prentice Hall, c2001
5th ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-468) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For junior/senior-level courses in Sociology of Education or Social Foundations of Education taught in sociology or education departments.
Comprehensive, contemporary, and cross-cultural in perspective, this text provides a sociological approach to education-from several theoretical approaches and their practical application, to current educational issues, to the structure and processes that make education systems work.
Table of Contents
1. Sociology of Education: A Unique Perspective on Schools.
2. Conflicting Functions and Processes in Education: What Makes the System Work.
3. Education and the Process of Stratification.
4. Race, Class, and Gender: Attempts to Achieve Equality of Educational Opportunity.
5. The School as an Organization.
6. Formal School Statuses and Roles: "The Way It Spozed to Be."
7. Students: The Core of the School.
8. The Informal System and the "Hidden Curriculum": What Really Happens in School?
9. The Educational System and the Environment: A Symbiotic Relationship.
10. The System of Higher Education.
11. Education Systems around the World: A Comparative View.
12. Education Systems around the World: Case Studies.
13. Educational Movements and Reform.
14. Change and Planning in Educational Systems.
Epilogue.
Schools in the Early Twenty-First Century.
References.
Index.
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